Machinery for doubling and twisting tarn



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THOMAS LYLE, OF COLLINSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINERY FOR DOUBLING AND TWISVTINGr` YARN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,851, dated October 17, 1848.

ToaZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs LYLE, of Collinsville, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Doubling, Twisting, and Reeling Thread, which j is described as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification. t

Figure 1, is a perspective view of themachine. Fig. 2, is a vertical section through the center of one of the fliers.

Similar letters in the figures refer to corresponding parts. v

The nature of this invention and improvement consists in a peculiar construction o a flier, for the reception of several bobbins of thread to the doubled, twisted and reeled, arranged one above the other in the same lvertical axis, revolved simultaneously, in combination with a revolving reel upon whichthe thread is wound after passing from the several bobbins, over yguide wires, and through the hollow journal of the spindle in which the required doubling and twist is imparted to the threads.

A is the frame, made of suitable size and form for the purpose intended.

B are the fliers, arranged in a row on one side of the frame, turning in steps at their lower ends and supported at their upper ends by hollow journals turning in suitable boxes in the frame.

C are division plates, secured equidistant from each other, and from the caps and lower plates of the fliers.

D are the bobbins, arranged one above the other, in the same vertical axis, between the division plates and cap and lower plates of the fliers, and held in their places by vertical pins or shafts, rising from the cent-ers of the upper surfaces of the lower, and divi-v sion plates, and entering corresponding openings in the lower ends o-f the bobbins.

E are wire rods below the lower sides of' the caps and division plates, and secured to the same at one end and bent upward at the other end to prevent the threads which pass over said wires in their passage from the bobbins to the reel from being thrown off the wires during the revolutions of the, fliers.

F are inclined channels formed in the lower sides of the caps and division plates of the fliers, and extending from the edges of said plates toward the centers of the same, at right angles to the wires for'guiding the threads.

G is a horizontal reel, turning in boxes at the top of the frame. v

I-I is a pulley secured near the end of the reel shaft.

I is va crossed band passed Aaround said pulley, and around a smaller pulley J, on the end of a horizontal shaft J', turning in boxes in the frame.

.K is another pulley also securedon the shaft J. v L is" a crossed band, passed around at the 'upper'part `of the frame.

O is a drun secured on the last men-v tioned shaft, around which vispassed across band P, ,alsopassing around a small. pulleyk P on a horizontal shaft, turning in boxes atthe lower part .of theframe.

v Q, is a cylinder or drum secured on the last mentioned shaft, around lwhich are Vpassed bands R,a`lsopassing around pulleys T on the fliers, below the lower plates of the same. x

S is a whirl or pulley on" the main shaft, around which is passedthe band for giving motion to the several parts of the machine. S isa vloose pulley arranged alongside the last mentioned. v

Operation: The machine being properly adjusted,- and theliers A, supplied with filled bobb-ins of thread, to be doubled,

conducted from the end of the bobbins D, over the guide wires E and up through the channels F in the division platesv C, and caps C', and hollow journals C and thence to the reel Gr, is set in motion by any conthe rlast mentioned pulley, and around a small pulley M, on the main horizontal shaft N,

twisted, and reeled, kand the several threads f y venient power, applied to the axle ofthe main Vdriving pulley,- O. The crossed bandk P passing around this pulley, and the small pulley P, on the axle of the drum Q, causes it to turn, and to give motion to the fliers,

by the agency of the bands R, passed around v a small pulley M, on the angle of the main pulley O, and extended around another pulley K on a horizontal axle J carrying another pulley J, around which a band I is passed, that extends around a pulley H on the axle of the reel, or by any other convenient means. When abobbin becomes empty it can be readily seen on account of being placed on a central vertical line of the open flier, instead of a horizontal line with the old arrangement of bobbins, and can be replaced by a lled bobbin by simply bea-ring against the flier, and arresting its movement for a moment, orl by stopping the motion of the machine. And likewise when a thread breaks it can be readily seen yfrom the same cause, and mended by stopping the motion of the flier for a moment in the same ways-which is a different operation in the old machines-besides possessing the ad:

vantage desired from not arresting the motions of the other fiiers Vwhile mending a thread or supplying a bobbin to a Hier,-be side doing away with the backward and 4forward movement of the spindles as in the use of the old Billy, Jenny or mule.

Another advantage which this machine possesses over others for the same purpose,l

in a hollow journal C or tube before the twisting operation takes place which renders ,the yarn more perfect when twisted.

Constructing the flier with several divisions, o-r spaces, for the reception of as many bobbins as there are threads to be twisted one arranged over another inthe same vertical axes, having grooved division plates, guide wires, and hollow journal, through which the several threads from the bobbins are passed to be doubled, twisted and reeled, in combination with the reel upon which the threads or yarns are reeled as fast as they are doubled and twisted, the whole revolving simultaneously in the manner aud for. the purpose herein fully set forth, whether the several parts be combined and arranged precisely in the manner described, or in any other mode which is substantially the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signedmy name before two subscribing witnesses this 14 day of January A. D. 1848.`

Trios. LYLE.

Witnesses:

WM. P. ELLIOT, A. E. H. JOHNSON. 

